Famous quotes containing the words blind man, blind and/or man:
“As if he were
a pot of dates
in a blind mans hand,
Mothers,
they pilfer my husband
and theyre jealous of me!
The cobras hood
has come out of its tail.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“Gold light in blind love does not distinguish
one surface from another, the savor
is the same to its tongue, the fluted
cylinder of a new ashcan a dazzling silver,
the smooth flesh of screaming children a quietness, it is all
a jubilance....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art and poetry, in all its periods from the Heroic and Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)